(Full transcript here)

Today on Follow Friday, YouTuber and educator Tom Scott talks about the wild places his videos take him, the challenges of science communication, and four of his favorite people to follow online:

• Someone super-talented who is still under the radar: Rollie Williams from Climate Town
• Someone who's an expert in a very specific niche that he loves: Linguist Gretchen McCulloch
• Someone who makes the internet a better place: Writer and video producer Jon Bois
• Someone he just started following: Science fiction author Becky Chambers

And on our Patreon page, you can pledge any amount of money to get access to Follow Friday XL — our members-only podcast feed with exclusive bonus follows. That feed has an extended-length version of this interview in which Tom talks about the profanity-fluent music of Tom Cardy.

Also:

• Follow Tom on YouTube at TomScottGo and TomScottPlus
• Follow us @FollowFridayPod on Twitter and Instagram
• Follow Eric on Twitter @heyheyesj

Theme song written by Eric Johnson, and performed by Yona Marie. Show art by Dodi Hermawan.

Thank you to our amazing patrons: Jon, Justin, Amy, Yoichi, Shinri, Elizabeth, Odette, and Jay